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1
Vessel Safety Check Review
Prepared by Vessel Examination Division USCG
Auxiliary, V-Department
2
Vessel Safety Checks
  • The operative message is
  •  
  • The VSC-DEPT. ------WE DELIVER!

3
Vessel Safety Check
4
Vessel Safety CheckThe History
  • USCGAUX developed the Courtesy Motorboat
  • Examination program in 1947 to provide
    recreational
  • boaters an advisory review of their vessels
    legally
  • required equipment and additional recommended
  • equipment essential for safe boating.
  • It also serves to provide one-on-one education of
  • recreational boaters regarding the use of safety
  • equipment, legal requirements and regulations,
    etc.

5
Vessel Safety CheckThe History
  • The program evolved with the addition of
    sailboats and the name was changed to Courtesy
    Marine Examination.
  • Then, with the addition of the United States
    Power Squadrons as partners, it was change to
    Vessel Safety Check (VSC). The VSC program now
    includes PWC and SUBs.

6
Vessel Safety Check
  • Vessel Examiners may check Powerboats,
  • Sailboats, Personal Water Craft (PWC), and
  • Sport Utility Boats (SUB).
  • Requests for VSCs on boats larger than 65ft
  • in length should be referred to the nearest
  • Coast Guard Marine Safety Office (MSO).

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Item 1 - Display of Numbers
  • The boats registration number must
  • be permanently attached to each
  • side of the forward half of the boat.
  • They must be plain, vertical, block
  • characters, not less than three (3)
  • inches high, and in a color
  • contrasting with the background.
  • A space or hyphen must separate
  • the letters From the numbers. Place
  • State tax Sticker according to State
  • policy. (e.g. FL 1234 AB or FL-1234-
  • AB)

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Item 2 - Registration and Documentation
Registration or Documentation papers must be on
board and available. Documentation numbers must
be permanently marked on a visible part of the
interior structure. The documented boats name
and hailing port must be displayed on the
exterior hull in letters not less than 4 inches
in height. To be documented a boat must be 5 net
tons or greater.
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Item 3 Flotation Devices (PFD)
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  • Item 3 Flotation Devices (PFD)
  • Acceptable PFDs (Life Jackets)
  • Must be U.S. Coast Guard
  • approved, in good serviceable
  • condition, and of suitable size for
  • the each person on the boat.
  • Children must have properly fitted
  • PFDs designed for children.

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Item 3 Flotation Devices (PFD)
  • Wearable PFDs shall be "readily
  • accessible.
  • Throwable devices shall be
  • "immediately available.
  • PFDs shall NOT be stored in unopened
  • Plastic packaging.

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Item 3 Flotation Devices (50 100 MPH PFD)
  • WARNING
  • 50 100 MPH rated Life-jackets do not protect
    wearers from traumatic injury in a high speed
    crash.
  • The impact rating means that the PFD still be
    buoyant following a 50 or 100 MPH impact
    respectively.

13
Item 3 Flotation DevicesNon-Serviceable and
Substandard Type I Unicellular Plastic Foam Life
Preservers
  • The US Coast Guard strongly recommends
  • That owners and operators carefully inspect
  • all of their older Type I unicellular plastic
  • foam PFDs.
  • Potential indications that a Type I unicellular
  • plastic foam PFD may no longer be serviceable
  • include

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Item 3 Flotation Devices
  • Compression The PFD may be compressed from many
    years of stowage.
  • 2. Loss of resiliency The PFD is excessively
    hard, stiff or its foam is brittle. Normally
    after compressing the PFD to about half its
    initial thickness, the foam should expand to its
    original dimension in a short period of time.

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Item 3 Flotation Devices
  • 3. Shrinkage A physical reduction in size may be
    indicated by wrinkling of the coating on vinyl
    dipped type or by a loose fitting shell on a
    fabric-covered PFD.
  • Questions regarding this information may be
    addressed to Mr. Marty Jackson, Staff Engineer of
    the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters Lifesaving
    Fire Safety Standards Division at (202) 267.0710
    or mjackson_at_comdt.uscg.mil.

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Item 3 Flotation Devices
  • PFD INFLATION FAILURE DUE TO FALSE
  • POSITIVE SERVICE INDICATORS AND
  • INCORRECT CO2 CYLINDER INSTALLATION
  • There is a potential problem when installing CO2
  • cylinders that have bayonet tips in inflatable
    PFDs. 
  • If a cylinder is not properly installed, the PFD
    will not
  • inflate with CO2.  The problem may affect several
  • thousand PFDs, but the Coast Guard is only aware
    of
  • one incident to date. 

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Item 3 Flotation Devices (PFD)
  • For Personal Watercraft riders, many states
    require that the PFD be worn and they may also
    require an impact rating.
  • Boats 16 Feet or longer, must also
  • have one Type IV.

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Item 4 - Visual Distress Signals (VDS)
  • Recreational boats 16 feet and over used on
    coastal
  • waters or the Great Lakes require a minimum of
  • either
  • Three day and 3 night pyrotechnic devices, or 3
    combination day/night devices.
  • Non-pyrotechnic devices day(flag) and one night
    (auto SOS light) or
  • A combination of 1) and 2). Recreational boats
    less than 16 feet on coastal waters or the Great
    Lakes need only carry night visual distress
    signals when operating from sunset to sunrise.

19
Item 4 - Visual Distress Signals (VDS)
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Item 4 - Visual Distress Signals Continued
  • It is recommended, but not required, that
  • boats operating on non-coastal waters should have
  • some means of making a suitable day and
  • night distress signal.
  • The number and type of signals is best judged by
  • Considering conditions under which the boat will
    be
  • operating.

21
Item 4 - Visual Distress Signals Continued
22
Item 4 - Visual Distress Signals Continued
  • Night Day
  • Strobe light Signal mirror
  • Flashlight Red or orange flags
  • Lantern Hand signals
  • Flares Flares

23
Item 4 - Visual Distress Signals
24
Item 5 - Fire Extinguishers
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Item 5 - Fire Extinguishers
  • Fire extinguishers are required if one of the
    following conditions exists
  • Inboard engine(s)
  • Closed compartments that store
  • portable fuel tanks
  • (3) Double bottom hulls not completely
  • sealed or not completely filled with
  • flotation material

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Item 5 - Fire Extinguishers Continued
  • (4) Closed living space
  • (5) Closed stowage compartments that contain
    flammable materials or
  • (6) Permanently installed fuel tanks
  • NOTE Fire extinguishers must be serviceable and
    should be stored or mounted to be easily
    accessible.

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Item 5 - Fire Extinguishers Continued
  • Minimum number of extinguishers required
  • Boat Length No Fixed System With Fixed
    System
  • Less than 26 One B-1
    None
  • 26 to less than 40 Two B-1 or one B-2
    One B-1
  • 40 to 65 Three B-1 or
    Two B-1 or
  • One B1 One B-2 One B-2

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Item 6 - Ventilation
  • Boats with gasoline engines in closed
  • compartments, built after 1 August
  • 1980 must have a powered ventilation
  • system.
  • Those built prior to that date must
  • have natural or powered ventilation.

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Item 6 - Ventilation
  • Boats with closed fuel tank
  • Compartments built after
  • August 1, 1978 may meet
  • requirements by displaying
  • a "certificate of compliance."
  • Boats built before that date
  • must have either natural or
  • powered ventilation in the
  • fuel tank compartment.

30
Item 7 - Backfire Flame Control
  • All gasoline powered inboard/outboard
  • or inboard motor boats must be
  • equipped with an approved backfire
  • flame control device. Must be clean and not oily.

31
Item 8 - Sound Producing Devices / Bell
  • To comply with Navigation Rules and for
    distress signaling purposes all boats must carry
    a sound producing device (whistle, horn, siren,
    etc.) capable of a 4-second blast audible for ½
    mile.

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Item 8 - Sound Producing Devices / Bell, Horn
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Item 8 - Sound Producing Devices
  • Recent changes in the Navigation Rules
    effectively have changed the requirements for the
    carriage of a bell on both International, and by
    default, Inland waters. State laws may still
    require bell.
  •  

34
Item 8 - Sound Producing Devices Bell
Boats 20 meters and over are required to carry a
bell of 300 mm minimum diameter.  Boats from 12
to less than 20 meters are not required to carry
a bell (check your state regulations) but must be
able to make the appropriate bell sound when
operating under the Inland Navigation Rules.
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Item 9 - Navigation Lights
  • All boats must be able to display navigation
    lights between sunset and sunrise and in
    conditions of reduced visibility.
  • Boats 16 feet or more in length must have
    properly installed, working navigation lights and
    an all-around anchor light capable of being lit
    independently from the red/green/white "running"
    lights.

36
Item 9 - Navigation Lights
37
Item 10 - Pollution Placard
  • Boats 26 feet and over must
  • display an oily waste
  • "pollution" placard.

38
Item 10 - Pollution Placard
39
Item 11 - MARPOL Trash Placard
  • Boats 26 feet and over in length must display
    a "MARPOL" trash placard.
  • Oceangoing Boats 40 feet and over must also
    display a written trash disposal plan.

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Item 11 - MARPOL Trash Placard
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Item 12 - Marine Sanitation Devices
  • Any installed toilet
  • must be a Coast
  • Guard approved
  • device.
  • Overboard discharge
  • outlets must be
  • capable of being
  • sealed.

42
Item 13 - Navigation Rules
  • Boats 39.4 feet and over , when operating on
    Inland Waters, must have on board a current copy
    of the Navigation Rules.

43
Item 13 - Navigation RulesRules of the Road
  • CAPT Glenn Wiltshire, the Captain of the Port
    and the Commanding Officer of Sector New York
    said,
  • "While I want all boaters to enjoy the
    waterways in our area, recent increases in
    reports of commercial vessels having to take
    evasive actions to avoid small boats in the
    channel are of great concern to me. I ask that
    all boaters be aware of their position and remain
    outside the main channels to ensure the continued
    safety of all waterway users. We don't want to
    wait for a tragedy to occur."

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Item 14 - State and/ or Local Requirements
  • These requirements must be met before the
    "Vessel Safety Check" decal can be awarded.
  • A boat must meet the requirements of the state
    in which it is being examined.

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Item 15 - Overall Vessel Condition
  • Deck free of hazards and clean bilge
  • The boat must be free from fire hazards, in
    good overall condition, with bilges reasonably
    clean and visible hull structure generally sound.
    The use of automobile parts on boat engines is
    not acceptable. The engine horsepower must not
    exceed that shown on the capacity plate.

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Item 15 - Overall Vessel Condition
  • Safe Electrical and Fuel Systems
  • The electrical system - Must be protected by
  • fuses or manual reset circuit breakers.
  • Switches and fuse panels must be protected
  • from rain or water spray. Wiring must be in
  • good condition, properly installed and with
  • no exposed areas or deteriorated insulation.

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Item 15 - Overall Vessel Condition
  • Safe Electrical and Fuel Systems
  • Batteries must be secured and terminals
  • covered to prevent accidental arcing
  • All PWCs require an operating self circling or
  • kill switch mechanism.

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Item 15 - Overall Vessel Condition
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Item 15 - Overall Vessel Condition
  • Fuel Systems - Portable fuel tanks (normally 7
    gallon capacity or less) must be constructed of
    non-breakable material and free of corrosion and
    leaks.
  • All vents must be capable of being closed. The
    tank must be secured and have a vapor-tight,
    leak-proof cap. Each permanent fuel tank must be
    properly ventilated.

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Item 15 - Overall Vessel Condition
  • Safe Galley and Heating Systems
  • System and fuel tanks must be properly secured
    with no flammable materials nearby.

51
Additional Discussion Items
  • Marine Radio
  • Dewatering Device and Back-up
  • Mounting Fire Extinguishers
  • Anchor and Line
  • Capacity/Certificate of Compliance

52
Additional Discussion Items
  • Accident Reports/Owner Responsibility
  • The boat owner retains responsibility for what
  • occurs on their boat, even when they are not
  • present.
  • Offshore Operations
  • Boat operators are required by law to extend
  • help to other boaters in distress. Failure to
  • assist is a felony punishable by fines and/or
  • prison.

53
Additional Discussion Items
  • Fueling/Fuel Management
  • Refuel portable tanks away from the vessel.
  • Close all hatches and openings before fueling.
  • Dont smoke while fueling.
  • Turn off engines, electrical systems, and any
    spark producing items.
  • Remove all passengers.
  • Keep the fill nozzle in contact with the tank and
    clean up any spills.

54
Additional Discussion Items
  • Fueling/Fuel Management
  • After Fueling
  • Open all hatches and openings
  • Check bilges and sniff test boat for fuel vapor
  • Run blowers for at least 4 minutes before
  • starting engine
  • Always use the One Third Rule
  • One third of fuel going out
  • One third of fuel for coming back
  • One third of fuel as a reserve

55
Additional Discussion Items
  • Insurance Considerations
  • Most States require proof of Insurance before you
  • can register your boat.
  • Coverage should include
  • Loss of, or damage to, boat
  • Loss of, or damage to, equipment
  • Liability Coverage personal injury and property
  • Medical coverage
  • Towing over both land and water

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Additional Discussion Items
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Additional Discussion Items
  • Carbon Monoxide
  • CO symptoms are similar to seasickness or alcohol
    intoxication?
  • CO can affect you whether you're underway,
    moored, or anchored?
  • You cannot see, smell, or taste CO?
  • CO can make you sick in seconds. In high enough
    concentrations, even a few breaths can be fatal?

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Additional Discussion Items Carbon Monoxide
  • Each Time You Go On a Boat Trip
  • Make sure you know where CO exhaust outlets are
    located on your vessel.
  • Educate all passengers about the symptoms of CO
    poisoning and where CO may accumulate.
  • When docked, or rafted with another boat, be
    aware of exhaust emissions from the other boat.
  • Confirm that water flows from the exhaust outlet
    when the engines and generator are started.
  • Listen for any change in exhaust sound, which
    could indicate an exhaust component failure.
  • Test the operation of each CO alarm by pressing
    the test button.

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Additional Discussion Items
  • Carbon Monoxide Hazards caused by
  • Generator Exhaust
  • Remind Recreational Boaters about Carbon Monoxide
    Hazards
  • caused by Generator Exhaust. The Coast Guard
    advises
  • owners and operators of boats to turn off
    gasoline-powered
  • generators with transom exhaust ports when the
    swim
  • platform on the stern is in use. Swimmers should
    not enter
  • the cavity of a boat designed with a generator
    emitting
  • exhaust into the cavity between the swim platform
    and the
  • transom of the vessel.

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FILE A FLOAT PLAN
  • A float plan contains information about the
    operator and the vehicle used to transport the
    vessel as well as the vessel itself. 
  • The plan also includes the expected route of
    travel along with a date and time of arrival and
    departure. Taking a few minutes to post a float
    plan with friends or loved ones is a great life
    insurance policy.

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CHECK THE WEATHER
  • Monitor and evaluate weather conditions. 
  • Purchase a waterproof and portable weather radio
    or use a VHF radio that has a weather channel. 
  • Check sky and sea conditions and never operate in
    an environment that exceeds personal capability.

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FIRST AID KITPack a waterproof First Aid kit
and insure that it is secured to your boat.   
In addition to the kit consider completing basic
first aid training and CPR
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VHF Radio, GPS, Compass
  • Bring along electronic communication and
    navigation devices such as a VHF Radio, GPS, and
    Cellular Phone.
  • Include a waterproof hand held compass as a back
    up in case

64
CHARTS
  • When operating in coastal waters or navigable
    rivers, carry a chart and try to obtain local
    knowledge of waterway conditions.
  • Familiarize yourself with basic coastal
    navigation procedures.

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OTHER ITEMS
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BOATING SAFETY COURSE
  • All boaters should be encouraged to take a
    Boating Safety Course such as Americas Boating
    Course.

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CLEAN UP
  • Pack a trash bag. Take all refuse away with you.
  • Leave every stop or campsite cleaner than when
    you found it.

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  • The Vessel Safety Check Program is an important
    assist to Homeland Security and the active Coast
    Guard
  • Preventive Search and Rescue saves lives and
    also creates opportunities for our limited active
    Coast Guard resources to conduct missions other
    than Search and Rescue, which is extremely
    valuable within the current maritime security
    environment...
  • Capt. David B.
    Hill, CHDIRAUX

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  • VSC Review
  • Vessel Examination Division
  • USCG Auxiliary, V-Department
  • United States Power Squadrons
  • The VSC-DEPT. ------WE DELIVER!

Peter Urgola DC-V
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